Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that
helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source
Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and
infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to
focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the
general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that
do not relate directly to software development and documentation.

Software Freedom Conservancy has updated
its Frequently Asked
Questions list in connection with
the lawsuit filed by Christoph
Hellwig against VMware last week in Germany. Responding to requests for
more technical detail regarding VMware's GNU GPL violation, Conservancy has
added a specific example that shows one of the ways that VMware combined Linux
source code with binary-only components. The new FAQ entries also address
the question of VMware's so-called “shim layer”.